A study of the state-of-the-art of PaaS interoperability
Suchismita Hoare · 2016
Background: Platform as a Service (PaaS) model of Cloud Computing is at an early stage of adoption in spite of its perceived benefits, especially in speeding up the development cycle of Cloud-aware applications. Wider adoption of this service model is impeded by multiple inhibitors, one of which is a lack of interoperability between proprietary services of public PaaS providers. The paper presents the state-of-the-art of PaaS interoperability initiatives from industry and academia. Although these initiatives evidence interest in solving the issue, they are focused either on system infrastructure services or on enabling application portability. PaaS service interoperability has not received much attention yet.